Food, fun, and graduations!

    Greg, apparently, is no longer allergic to seafood and he found a new favorite seafood restaurant to take us to. Everyone really loved it.

Great food and great friends.

    Harley got to take her turn wearing her Joey's childhood dress. She had lots of great poses for the camera.

She's nuts!

    

    On my morning walks I like to stay on the sidewalk as much as I can but this 'girl' was hogging it.

These dang deer are getting to be a real menace.

    Charlie had her last school event, the dance 'festival' that we made sure to attend.

 

    Beau had her preschool graduation this week and she wasn't too sure about the whole thing. She's definitely shy like her mom was at that age. Thankfully she got past the worst of it and ended the night happy.

She just loves to wear my glasses.

So sad!

No smiles but also no tears, we'll call that a win.

Party popper time.

    And another really cute girl graduated this week, Rachel is officially a Lone Peak graduate.

 

Congrats to the cutest graduate of the whole 2024 senior class.

    It's been a good week but we've also had our obstacles, starting with a very broken garage door. If it's not one thing, it's another. But on a happier note, Mark's little Ranger is finally all fixed, new transmission and clutch and in good working order so hopefully it won't be much longer before he's got that back at his place.
    Now on to Memorial weekend and the official start to our summer break. Technically today was the last day of school but really none of the kids have been to school the last couple days. Now we just need to let mother nature know that it's time to be warm and stay warm.

Changes and wrapping up.

   My mom and sisters said farewell Sunday morning/Mother's Day. I loved every minute of our visit and to top it off, we got to have a treat from the Chubby Baker and a yummy dinner at Chubby's Cafe where my mom treated 18 of us to a great dinner. I'm just sorry I failed to get a photo of all of us at dinner.

 

Good donuts but my mom was really after some swag, sadly they had none.

    My kids all made good attempts to wish me a Happy Mother's day. A Fiiz gift card from Isaac, a beautiful ring from Kayli, a cool string-art project from Charlie and, not photographed, Mark coming to church with us, silly photos of me posted on Carter's Instagram and my beautiful flower pots from Greg and the two younger boys. It was a great day.

 

    And as the school year wraps up all the projects come due. Charlie had her 'State-Fair' where she researched and reported on Oregon.

Thank goodness this project was 100% done at school.

  

  And I got to refresh my nails and I'm loving the bright orange!

 

    And sometimes you let your friend give you a buzz cut as the school year is nearly done. I don't know if McClane's friend was trying to punk him but it's more a bald cut vs. a buzz cut but at least hats are an option for a few weeks.

 

    The fact that there's only 5, or less, days of school, is beyond comprehension. This school year flew and creeped along all at the same time. Let the summer break begin!

Lots of fun!

    Fun with friends, family and big events.

Celebrating Makayla with four shades of braids.

    Carter apparently 'graduated' or 'completed' seminary and we just found out about it.

Happy seminary completion one year late.

    And cute baby Reese got her ears pierced! 

Sad to happy.

    And these three girls got to spend a few hours with Joey while mom was getting her nails done.

Baby Elliot had to be incarcerated, she's naughty. 

    Great grandma Elaine came to visit and Elliot wasn't sure about her at all.

 

    And the best night ever, "Hope of America" was this week for Charlie and it was a blast. My mom and sisters, Jackie and Ann, came down to attend and I hope it was worth the long drive. Such a great program.

 "Jean's Golden Girls" are my favorite pre-show performance.
(Photo on the jumb-tron).

These girls loved the snacks at Hope of America, popcorn and cougar-tails.

Cousin J.J. was part of the same fun night.

    And my mom enjoyed watching "Escape from Germany" in the 'fancy' movie theater.

Fun times and a fabulous movie.

    It's been a great week and we're looking forward to a nice weekend.

Happy birthday!

    Mr. Mark is officially 24! He let us celebrate with him on Sunday with Hawaiian haystacks for dinner and chocolate cake for dessert. Sadly our gift to him is car parts, super fun, so there was no gift opening but hopefully the gift of a working truck is coming soon.

 

    And here's a throwback from 8 years ago when he got his license to drive that same truck that needs to be fixed.

How time flies!

    And cute baby Reese is officially 5 months old. 

She's just the cutest!
(Photos courtesty of her mom, Jess, who sends them to Rachel, who kindly shares them with me.)

    And sometimes the cat 'graces' me with her presence. She's such a princess.

Just chilling with "Sapphire", "Salmon" or "kitty", she doesn't answer to any of them. Ha ha

    I can't believe it's May! Only 15 more days of school! How did that happen.